1 Response to Links 3/7/13

But why should journalists think like programmers? Why shouldn’t programmers learn to think like journalists?

Back in the ’80s when regular businesses were starting to computerize, there were many ads for training employees to use computers. A friend of mine and I turned that on its head, saying that we would “train” the computers to work with the employees. OC, it is on the surface cheaper to do it the other way, and we were unsuccessful, but I still think that we should stop regarding people as cogs in machines. Especially in the computer age, when we have virtual machines that are indefinitely flexible.